#60384 - 18/01/2002 06:44
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: otowneddie]
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journeyman
Registered: 03/01/2002
Posts: 60
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I've been using these 20% off deals from Dell.com for some time. Never a problem. Dell has been great. Look around for 20% + stackable $15 off, happens from time to time.
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#60385 - 18/01/2002 10:39
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: otowneddie]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
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For the life of me... I can't find the 60GB drive on thier site..
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#60386 - 18/01/2002 12:10
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
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Registered: 11/11/2001
Posts: 552
Loc: Houston, TX
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Search for 340-3196 on their store site.
It's there I just can't afford one because I just put new speakers in my car
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#60387 - 18/01/2002 14:56
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: BAKup]
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Registered: 05/01/2001
Posts: 4903
Loc: Detroit, MI USA
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I'm hoping they have a good deal on a drive one size smaller...
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#60388 - 20/01/2002 10:49
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: SE_Sport_Driver]
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journeyman
Registered: 15/01/2002
Posts: 55
Loc: Kansas
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wow $400 for a 60 gig, that's a lot of money, granted if you need the space then it's necessary, but I just bought a 30 gig IBM travelstar for $144 sure they charged me $22 in shipping and handeling, but it's still proportionately less than the 60gig.
laptop drives are just too dang expensive
eli
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#60389 - 20/01/2002 11:55
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: TheTwin314]
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stranger
Registered: 30/12/2001
Posts: 39
Loc: FL, USA
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I agree...those suckers are too expensive.
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#60390 - 20/01/2002 14:14
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: otowneddie]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
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They're expensive, but you get what you pay for. 3.5" HDDs are made to work sat in a non-moving PC, and are sold in huge quantities - there's also a lot of price pressure.
2.5" HDDs are far more rugged, are sold into fewer applications and so are more expensive, and when you get to the top end (eg, IBM 60GB) there's very little competition - so they can sell them for what they like until another vendor starts shipping 60's.
Bear in mind that these drives typically go into top-of-the-range $5000 laptops.
Hugo
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#60391 - 20/01/2002 17:33
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: altman]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
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And of course more and more servers based around the blade design are begining to use laptop drives as well. The admins in this sector would rather pay more to avoid dead drive issues.
People keep saying desktop IDE could replace SCSI. SCSI still has a speed advantage, and is also more reliable. Sure it may be the same drive platters and heads in certain units, but that board full of electronics on the bottom of SCSI drives is doing something... And I have found that laptop drives usually fall between SCSI and desktop IDE for reliability.
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#60392 - 20/01/2002 23:15
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: drakino]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 12/11/2001
Posts: 7738
Loc: Toronto, CANADA
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I'm ashamed that my desktop Cheetah is only 18GB and I've got two 30GB 2.5" drives in my empeg.
I've never used an IDE primary drive in any of my personal desktop machines.
Bruno
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#60393 - 21/01/2002 06:47
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: hybrid8]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Greetings!
It could always be worse. I am running a 4GB hard drive in the office (I know...), a 16GB hard drive at home, and a pair of 48s in the empeg. Looking at the 60s now...
Additional: Well, the deed is done. I will let everyone know how it goes.
Edited by pgrzelak (21/01/2002 07:16)
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#60394 - 21/01/2002 15:52
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: otowneddie]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 08/07/1999
Posts: 5549
Loc: Ajijic, Mexico
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I agree...those suckers are too expensive.
Oh, you poor babies!
I remember the good old days when we got excited that the cost on hard drives finally dropped to under a dollar per megabyte. By that standard your 60GB drive would cost over $60,000.
And I can remember even worse times... the five megabyte Winchester drive on my Datapoint mini-computer sold for over $8,000, and on average required a service call by the Datapoint technician about once a month. Extrapolating that cost per megabyte would give a ninety-six million dollar cost for a 60 GB drive.
$400 is too much, eh?
tanstaafl.
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#60395 - 22/01/2002 04:42
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: tanstaafl.]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Ouch! I haven't heard the term "Winchester drive" in a very long time!!!
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#60396 - 22/01/2002 22:06
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: tanstaafl.]
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stranger
Registered: 30/12/2001
Posts: 39
Loc: FL, USA
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You are defintely an old timer there tanstaafl. I guess when comparing anything to the prices of yesteryear, we are defintely getting more for our money these days. I do remember paying $1500 for a 2GB SCSI drive just about 8-9 years ago. I guess I am getting old too.
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#60397 - 23/01/2002 05:15
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: otowneddie]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Greetings!
You are defintely an old timer there tanstaafl.
It would seem so. Or at least, probably one of the oldest empeg owners out there.
Now there is an interesting poll - age of empeg owners... Or perhaps "first computer owned"... Either way...
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#60398 - 23/01/2002 18:57
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: pgrzelak]
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stranger
Registered: 30/12/2001
Posts: 39
Loc: FL, USA
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I am 31. First computer owned was a Commodore 64 with a 1541 5.25" Floppy Drive.
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#60399 - 23/01/2002 19:54
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: otowneddie]
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member
Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 109
Loc: St. Louis, MO
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I'm 24, but ditto on the first computer... Ahh.. .the Commodore 64...
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#60400 - 23/01/2002 20:40
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: scoco]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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Greetings!
34. My first computer (I almost hate to say it) was a DEC Pro350. PDP-11 running a varient of VMS.
Meanwhile, these hard drives are great!!!
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#60401 - 23/01/2002 22:41
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: pgrzelak]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 23/08/2000
Posts: 3826
Loc: SLC, UT, USA
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#60402 - 24/01/2002 01:23
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: loren]
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addict
Registered: 06/11/2001
Posts: 700
Loc: San Diego, CA, USA
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Age: 24
Computer: IBM PCjr - Came with 128KB of RAM, upgraded to 640KB. Cartridge Basic. No Hard Drive. 2400 baud modem.
"640KB should be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates, 1981
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#60403 - 24/01/2002 05:53
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: svferris]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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28.
TI-99/4A.
Which, by the way, had one of the worst UI bugs ever. The keyboard had a ``FCTN'' key, which worked as a bucky-key of a nature. One of it's functions was to press FCTN-= to reset the computer (basically Ctrl-Alt-Del). The ``FCTN'' key was right next to the shift key, which was the size of a normal letter key, not the double-to-triple width as on most modern keyboards. The ``FCTN'' key was also small. This combination meant that if you were typing fast, and screwed up typing a ``+'' and missed the shift key by a little, you reset the entire computer. I started saving my little BASIC programs about every five lines of code that I typed in.
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#60404 - 24/01/2002 07:50
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: wfaulk]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 30/10/2000
Posts: 4931
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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21.
Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 1 hooked up to the TV. About the only thing I can remember about it is the Sesame Street educational software.
After that was the Commodore 64... the first computer I can remember operating on my own.
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#60405 - 24/01/2002 08:14
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: robricc]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 27/06/1999
Posts: 7058
Loc: Pittsburgh, PA
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I'm 25. First PC was a Tandy 1000 EX with 256k RAM. But wait! It had an expansion slot so you could upgrade it to a spacious 640k for ~$200. Add on a 1200 baud modem and you were in the fast lane, baby! Yeah! I believe the CPU was 7.16 MHz but could be slowed down to 4.77 MHz for those times when that "turbo speed" was just too much.
First computer game I ever played was Starflight, and I have yet to find another game that captured my imagination or wasted as much of my time. Amazing what you can do on two 360k disks.
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#60406 - 24/01/2002 08:49
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: robricc]
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enthusiast
Registered: 09/11/1999
Posts: 398
Loc: Ashburn, VA
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21.
Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 1 hooked up to the TV. About the only thing I can remember about it is the Sesame Street educational software.
24. Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer 1 hooked up to the TV. :-)
Best thing about it was loading programs off audio casette tapes.
Want a flashback? Here: My TRS-80.
Oh, that and my subscription to Rainbow magazine, where they had checksums on each page of code so that if you were keying in one of the 20+ page programs in the mag, you could make sure you typed everything correctly up to that point. Anyone remember that? :-)
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#60407 - 24/01/2002 12:42
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: ClemsonJeep]
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old hand
Registered: 28/12/2001
Posts: 868
Loc: Los Angeles
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I thought the trash-80 had a membrane keyboard, not chicklet. Am I remembering incorrectly or is that a different version?
My first; Atari 400 with that oh so wonderful membrane keyboard. The Commodore 64 I get next was like switching from a 386 to a Pentium 4.
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#60408 - 24/01/2002 13:25
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: ninti]
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carpal tunnel
Registered: 15/08/2000
Posts: 4859
Loc: New Jersey, USA
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The TRS80 Model 1 had membrane, if I remember correctly. The TRS80 Model 3 had a real keyboard. I don't remember the Model 2...
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#60409 - 24/01/2002 14:47
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: pgrzelak]
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stranger
Registered: 23/12/2001
Posts: 67
Loc: UK
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36, ZX81made from a kit
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#60410 - 24/01/2002 16:04
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: pgrzelak]
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enthusiast
Registered: 08/08/2000
Posts: 351
Loc: chicago
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oh no, my model I definitely had a full-travel keyboard.
check out the picture at the top of this page.
--dan.
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#60411 - 25/01/2002 12:01
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: otowneddie]
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addict
Registered: 27/12/2001
Posts: 504
Loc: Lummi Island, WA
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Im 29 but my dad was a computer science professor back in the 70's, so we always had "pc's" lying around the house.
My first taste was on a Commodore PET.
I then upgraded to the Commodore 64 (anybody remember Jumpman?)
Then an Amiga 500, then an Amiga 5000 (anybody remember Rocket Ranger).
Then I shrugged off computers for years and worked for the National Park Service in Maine (Acadia).
Didnt take though.
The web pulled me in in '96, been stuck ever since.
Now running a GB Pentium 4 Dell Optiplex, and a Poweredge 2200 PII400 webserver in the closet.
Plus endless periphals.
What a geek.
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#60412 - 28/01/2002 08:16
Re: 60GB IBM laptop hard drive deal
[Re: pgrzelak]
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journeyman
Registered: 17/05/2000
Posts: 92
Loc: 's-Hertogenbosch; the Netherla...
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Must be one of the oldest gits around here @ 42...
1st computer? Apricot F1 (1979) with one floppy (720k) which you would use to load apps with (rendering program, word processor, spreadsheet) AND still have around 350k left to store files!
Why they called it F1 is beyond me... It did have an IR wireless keyboard, pretty funky at the time !
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